The Evangel Dean Basic Training Resource Handbook

A SSIGNMENTS AND D EAN E XERCISES • 115

D EAN E XERCISE 8 Why Is It Both Prudent and Necessary to Develop a Team Charter?

Note: Please use the form available in the training module for this Dean Exercise.

The Team Charter is both a summary and culmination of the team’s strategic process, and equips the team to approach its ministry with unity and wisdom.

Instructions Review and discuss the points below, and initial each item.

Developing a Team Charter makes good sense because:

____ • It offers the team a clear ministry plan .

____ • It builds clarity and confidence in the Church Plant Team as they communicate their vision to partners, supporters, volunteers and the emerging church.

____ • It provides World Impact and its partners with a strategic way to oversee church plants.

____ • It enables ongoing feedback as reviews are made according to time-specific checkpoints.

____ • It can help the team eliminate waste through the non- strategic expenditures of time and effort.

____ • It prevents open-ended failure and instills in the team a sense of urgency .

____ • It makes the team semi-autonomous allowing the team to carry out its own vision without micro-management.